Faculty News

University Libraries has announced the launch of its Open Textbook Pilot Program, an initiative designed to empower faculty in adopting, adapting, and creating Open Educational Resource (OER) materials for their courses. The program aims to alleviate the...

An international community of 81 women from nine countries working in diverse disciplines will converge in Taos for FEMeeting 2023: Women in Art, Science and Technology from Monday to Friday, July 24-28, with public talks in Taos and Santa Fe on Saturday...

Two members of the Special Education Department in UNM’s College of Education & Human Sciences have just been recognized nationwide. Assistant Professor Sarah Carlson and Distinguished Professor Ruth Luckasson were both honored at the 147th Annual...

Walk into any library these days and you are liable to see a cheerful poster proclaiming that libraries are for everyone. Three University of New Mexico librarians are working to make sure that ideal is a reality, through a practice of cultural...

The term research – originally derived from the French word "recherche” in the 1500s – means "to seek," more specifically to seek new knowledge, and that’s a firm practice Omathanu “Om” Perumal has believed in since he was a child. It’s the mantra that...

Nine women faculty members at The University of New Mexico have been selected for the 2023 Women in STEM awards. Award recipients will explore how to reduce the number of Native American students with dyslexia, why some...

Jesse Alemán, Interim Dean of Graduate Studies, has been named the 2023-2024 Mellon Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) in Worcester, Mass. He will be the senior fellow in residence at the AAS, where he will...

For centuries, nomadic pastoralists have been moving their livestock with the seasons between camps at the headwaters of the Yenisei River in Tuva in Russia and northern Mongolia. In new research, Adjunct Associate Professor of Anthropology at The...

Even before the COVID pandemic crashed through the doors at The University of New Mexico’s Sandoval Regional Medical Center, Dr. Poonè Haghani Tehrani could see that psychiatric services needed to be more efficient. In a state with a big need but a...

University Libraries assistant professor, Adrienne Warner, was named the inaugural recipient of the Jim and Mary Lois Friday Hulsman Librarianship for Student Success, a prestigious endowment that enables librarians in the University Libraries to work on...